Re: Error message: `This page contains information of a type...'
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>>> Sometimes when I'm sailing in internet with my epiphany or mozilla browser
>>>> the following message appears:
>>>>
>>>> This page contains information of a type (application/x-shockwave-flash)
>>>> that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in.
>>>>
>>>> , and the web site cannot be viewed. Please can anybody suggest what shall
>>>> I do in order to view the web site that produces the above message?
"Andrew J. Barr" <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> If you are using a 32-bit x86 computer, add the contrib and non-free
>>> repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list and run:
>>>
>>> aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree
Rodolfo:
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I unpacked the file install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz and installed it
>> with:
>> $ ./flashplayer-installer
>>
>> . Now it seems all right.
Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl> writes:
> Now that is not something I can understand. Why would you want to
> install flash 7, when flash 9 is available? I can understand using a
> free alternative, but if one is willing to use the proprietary stuff,
> then why use an old version that will only work with some sites when
> they could use a new version that works with almost all of them?
Well, just because the `install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz' tarball was already
on my hard disk: I must have downloaded it some time ago. The new version is
downloadable from:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux
. Cheers,
Rodolfo
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